The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-04-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK

| A severe snow storm prevailed at Lynch
burg, Va, the Goth inst.
Indinas in the vicinity of Yuma, Ari
zona, are suffering from severe epidemic
of measles which has proved fatal in sixt,
cases.
The department of the interior has au
thorized the institution of an Indial
school at Pierre, Dakota. for 200 pupils
and 100000 has been ASST gned to thu.
purpose.
A dispatch from Cooktown, Australia
announces that steamer Benion of Singa
pore, was sunk in a collision with bark
| off the island of Formosa and that 15(
| persons were drowned.
DE. T. NJ. Simmons, manager of the Hotel
Del Monte which was recently burned al
Monterey, CAL, has been arrested as the
| incendiary. It is stated the officers have
clear case against him.
Two women were lately arrested in New
York city for counterfeiting silver coins
The officers caught the women at their
work and captured thirteen plaster paris
moulds and 1853 counterfeit dollars.
A dispatch from Pesth, the capital of
western Austria, says: A hurricane swept
the northeast coast on the 22nd inst. A
pearl fishery fleet numbering 400 boats
was destroyed and $50 persons persisted.
DR.. Alloway, territorial veterinarian of
Dakota, has beeu slaughtering horses in
and about Bismarck Of late. Chambers
seem to prevail extensively in that city
and several livery stables have been quar-
antined.
1t is stated that the Canadian Pacific
company has begun to carry sugar from
the Pacific coast to St. Paul at much low
er rates than those which prevail on our
transcontinental lines prior to the order of
suspension.
The Apache Indians, who were removed
from Arizona to Fort Marion, Florida, last
fall, are to be removed by the direction Of
the secretary of war to Mt Vernon bar
racks, Alabama. They number about 45O
in addition 10 Geronimo and II bucks,
who are confined at Fort Peckens
Custom officers throughout Great Britain
and Ireland have received stringent orders
to search all vessels arriving from Ameri-
ca, China and the east, the government
having been warned that explosives have
been sent from San Francisco to ports in
the east TO be trans shipped to England.
Assistant Secretary Maynard has In
formed the customs officers that imported
or re-imported liquors withdrawn for con-
sumption after having been warehoused
are subject to duty on the quantity enter
ed for the warehouse and not on that as
certained on withdrawal for consumption.
The special joint committee to investi
gate the mutual insurance companies Of
the state Of Michigan examined seventeen
companies doing business IN that state,
and the disclosures are of the most start
ling and damaging character. Nearly all
Of the assessment companies were found
to be rotten to the core.
The rains of western Texas have filled
the hitherto almost dry channel of the
Brazos river and have brought with the
current mass of polluted cattle carcases
that offset the advantage Of the rain and
give promise of disease. The carcases are
evidently from all alkali country, as they
are entirely devoid of hair.
A terrible wreck was caused by the ex
plosion of rag boiler in the Ivanhoe pa
per mill at Preston, n. j. It wrecked
large portion of the mill, went up through
the roof, scared into the air, and came
down on Booth & Co.'S silk mill across
the street, playing havoc with that also.
About twenty persons were injured.
1t is reported that party of kidnappers
Or outlaws arranged to capture Senator
John Sherman on his recent visit to Cuba.
While in Havana Sherman expressed the
desire to visit the sugar plantation in the
interior A military guard was sent as
escort and the whole party barely escaped
being captured, the bandits arriving at the
plantation just five minutes after the de-
parture of the Sherman party.
There is great rejoicing at Minct, on
the Manitoba road, over the news that the
land in that vicinity is about to be opened
for entry. This is measure for which
the people have looked long and anxious,
ly. 1t will have an influence upon the
settlement of the Turtle Mountain coun-
try. The order throws SIX of the best
open for immediate entry, in
cluding the township in which Minot IS
located.
The residence Of one jackson, near
Painted Woods on the Missouri, was swept
from its foundation early one morning by
the recent food. the family narrowly es-